Is anyone else mad about e-readers?

I wouldn't say that i am "mad" but i am sad. I love the Satisfaction of turning pages, and closing the book when i am done. But If someone wants to use a kindle or Nook, I think they should! But that's just my opinion. I think Technology is going to take over the world in the future. I also love to go into book stores and libraries and just browse. I like to pick up a book and look at what its about. Not read it on the computer. Thats just my opinion though. But i'm not saying "don't use an ereader" to anyone who uses one. I am just giving my own opinion.

I have a fear that the ereaders are going to replace books entirely one day though. I hope that doesn't happen though!

I wouldn't say I am "angry" about them, I own a Kindle. However I do admit that I prefer the feel of a real paper book, and rather enjoy the smell of a brand new book too. But, I do travel a lot and it is still much easier for me to carry a Kindle with hundreds of books loaded to it and close to a thousand archived items I can retrieve at any time within seconds which gives me more reading options, than it is to carry a single 500 page book, let alone three or four books I would have carried before owning the Kindle when traveling.

Now I am not lambasting the paper book, nor am I take a hardline of sticking up for eReaders, but it's personal choice. If I am at home I prefer to pick up a paper book, but as I travel - a lot, I use my Kindle. As well as that, I can still "check out" many books for free with my Kindle via sample texts, there are also thousands of free books by authors or those that have fell out of copyright. Because I also read often, although not all books are cheaper with my Kindle, many are -- so over the course of my ownership of my Kindle I have actually saved in cost of books.

However, we are humans -- we advance. I don't think eBooks will ever "fully" replace paper books, but just as paper printing once replaced written word on paper or papyrus, and paper and papyrus replaced clay tablets - so will the eReader to the printed book, largely, but not totally.

Some people don't want to harm the environment by using all of that paper. You can have over 1000 pages of books or 1000 electronically and that saves trees. Some people don't have the space to carry around books and when they are driving, e-readers can read the story to you. Some people don't have the gas money to travel to a bookstore or library so downloading the book right from your home is more convenient. If you are stuck at home and can't get out due to weather or something you can just buy the book from the online center. I, too, enjoy reading real books better and e-readers are too complicated for me, but I see that they have just as much purpose as e-readers.

Some of your assumptions are faulty.

Libraries now have eBooks to lend. So you can get your free eBook and not even have to go to the library.

While I do enjoy a good bookstore, and enjoy browsing in them, I don't necessarily always want to have to go to a bookstore when I want another book.

While the eReader is expensive, the eBooks are cheaper, sometimes by a lot. It evens out in the end.

eBooks are far more environmentally friendly. What's worse, using a few pennies of electricity to download and read a book, or chopping down trees, processing lumber into paper, using chemicals for ink, printing them, then physically shipping them all over the world, especially when every step of that process uses electricity or fossil fuels for energy?

Yes, you can recycle a real book. On the flip side, I never have to give away another book because I don't have room to store it. Even if i max out my Kindle's memory of 3,500 books, Amazon will store those books in my account forever.

I wouldn't call it anger, but sadness. Sadness for the potential loss of a my personal preferred reading method. I'm also afraid that e readers are going to replace books entirely in the future, leaving them as the only option for readers. This would mean the end of all bookstores. It' may be a bit of a stretch to think that, but often times new technology replaces old entirely.

Mine?

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Yeah, but no one bothers to think about people who travel a lot. Do you really think they have space and energy to lug books around everywhere when they could have a thousand of them on one device? Sorry, but a story is a story, a book is a book, no matter what object it's on. It still does the same damn thing.

"i understand ipods and stuff even because they allow you to buy single songs instead of whole cd's"

So you'll be instantly converted when I point out that you can buy single short stories for the Kindle instead of whole anthologies or magazines, then, will you?

FWIW, I don't own one. I would SO have bought one for when I went to spend my year in France though. If they'd existed. English books in France are well expensive.

No, because I don't think it's my place to tell everyone else what to do.

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